Pros : refreshed design , with much improved display ; new operating system introduces multi-tasking ; battery life improved ; new gyroscope improves game-playing ; video calling with facetime .
In the words of david riesman , an american sociologist , their minds work like radar , taking in signals from near and far , not like a gyroscope , pivoting on a point .
Another camera the institute has developed retains the compass , gyroscope , temperature sensor , accelerometer and barometer often found in modern phones , and there 's a bluetooth interface for connection to other devices such as a gps unit .
This remote control , called the gamepad , upgrades the overall gaming experience with features commonly found on smartphones like touch gestures , a gyroscope , an accelerometer , a stylus for handwriting and a front-facing camera .
We couldn 't decide if the controls just felt nimbler due to the ipad 's lighter profile or due to an upgrade with the gyroscope , but either way , we vastly prefer real racing 2 on the ipad 2 .
In addition to the phone 's gps location , color can record gyroscope and compass orientation , as well as ambient sound from the microphone and lighting from the phone 's proximity sensor -- tracking 20 to 40 data points in all , color labs ceo bill nguyen has said .
Going even further , there 's no reason they wouldn 't have an internal gyroscope to track our movement in the night , and thus the quality of our sleep , and then wake us up at exactly the right time during our circadian rhythm.illustration : simon lutrin / wired